out of square
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The crowd of art lovers sips sake out of square wood boxes in keeping with the night’s theme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
There was no way the walls would rack out of square with the rigid foam in between the studs.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
The building has twisted over the last 100 years and is out of square.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead he retreated to the farthest corner of the nursery, where he began building tall, wobbly towers out of square wooden blocks that he then proceeded to tip over with barely a hint of satisfaction.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Continual hard jogging with heavy lifts of stock against first one end of gage and then the other will quickly knock it out of square or loosen it.
From Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) by Grayson, David
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